Julie Dawn Cole Net Worth

Julie Dawn Cole's Quotes

• [on her two children] Whenever Holly (her daughter) said or did anything brattish, I'd just go, 'Is there a problem, Veruca? Can I help you?'. That always snapped her out of it. But I didn't call Barnaby (her son) anything because there was no need; he never gave me any such trouble.

Interesting Facts about Julie Dawn Cole

1. The band Veruca Salt took its name from the character that she portrayed in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).
2. Out of the five child actors from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), she is the only one still acting as of 2013.
3. No royalties from other sources of revenue (e.g. video sales) of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).
4. Presented a bouquet of flowers to Princess Margaret at the London premiere of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).
5. Performed in a highly acclaimed comedy show in the 2004 Melbourne International Comedy Festival entitled "Willy Wonka Explained - The Veruca Salt Sessions".
6. To this day, she still has the "Everlasting Gobstopper" and "Golden Ticket" from her role in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), even though she and the other children in the cast were originally told to return them after the filming.
7. Visits the United States once a year to do Christmas shopping in New York City.
8. Says that her song-and-dance routine in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) totally went against her nature as a person and she had to be coaxed into being nasty.
9. Has two children with her ex-husband Nick Wilton, a daughter Holly Wilton (born 1990) and a son Barnaby Wilton (born 1993).
10. Calls her daughter Holly Wilton "Veruca" (after her character from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)) when she behaves bratty.
11. She was awarded a drama prize by fellow British actress Lynne Frederick, while attending Barbara Speake Stage School.
12. She operates Centrestage, a children's drama school outside of London. She's also a fitness instructor and psychotherapist.
13. It's been long rumored that she was first runner up for the role of Alice in William Sterling's adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972). Although she has no memory of auditioning for Sterling's adaptation, she did play Alice in a two-minute long Christmas television commercial for the retail company, Woolworths, in the early 1970s.
14. Had a crush on John Moulder-Brown since she was 12 years old. She would later play his love interest in the BBC mini-series The Mill on the Floss (1978), much to her delight.
15. Was given bangs and fitted with hair extensions for her role as Rowella on Poldark (1975).
16. The famous thirteen-minute-long appraisal scene on Angels: Appraisal (1975), featuring her and June Watson, was done in a single take (with multiple cameras) and didn't require any re-shoots.
17. Her character on Poldark (1975), Rowella, was one of the few characters that wasn't native to Corwall. As a result, she was spared the complicated task of working with dialogue coaches to appropriate a Cornish accent.